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JMAP for Calendars, Contacts and Files Now in Stalwart

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refulgentis ◴[22 Oct 25 19:15 UTC] No.45673796[source]▶
Anyone got a link to a better sales job on JMAP & friends?

It sounds awesome but the way it is intro'd here:

  Over the past few years, the IETF has been redefining how email, calendars, and contacts are synchronized and shared. Building upon the success of JMAP for Mail, several new protocol extensions have been introduced:

  JMAP for Calendars - A modern replacement for CalDAV and CalDAV Scheduling.
  JMAP for Contacts – A powerful alternative to CardDAV.
  JMAP for File Storage – A replacement for WebDAV-based file storage.
  JMAP Sharing – A modern successor to WebDAV ACL.
  JSCalendar - A clean, JSON-based evolution of iCalendar.
  JSContact – A modernized, JSON-native successor to vCard.
...gave me pause. A protocol I've never heard even though I hang out here for an hour a day, was so successful, that it launched 6 new projects?

Sounds more like the parts of the web dev that give me ick (new and shiny; rush to copy new and shiny in other contexts; give it a year; and all of a sudden only 1 of the 6 actually was successful)

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ggm ◴[22 Oct 25 19:40 UTC] No.45674147[source]▶
You may only just have heard of them, but the WG goes back to 2017.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/jmap/history/

Bron is the principal of fastmail, who now own pobox. This is a serious activity.

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1. anoncareer0212 ◴[22 Oct 25 19:53 UTC] No.45674290[source]▶
Counterpoint: I Google'd "jmap gmail" and a top result is a comment from HN in 2019 saying Gmail will never implement JMAP (it has not)

That's a really cruel response, because this is important work. I don't want my kids beholden to bigco.

I think it's real & important.

I also wanna make sure people like me, who have to keep tabs on the intersection of "how can I help liberate from BigCo" and "how can I make a livable wage doing so"

It is, quite literally, real, but also something you shouldn't waste time on if you're already busy. (c.f. https://jmap.io/software.html)